CREW's latest win against the Trump administration
- Wed, Sep 9 2026 at 11:40 AM
Mark, CREW just won a major legal victory:
Over the weekend, a federal appeals court rejected the Trump administration’s request to pause a lower court ruling blocking its illegal expansion of the SAVE database to purge voters.
Of course, the Trump administration quickly appealed to the Supreme Court. But their last ditch effort to revive the database is only increasing our resolve: We’re committed to fighting at every level to ensure that the government cannot use the unreliable system for mass voter purges ahead of the midterms.
The court of appeals upheld the lower court’s ruling that the modified SAVE system illegally discloses millions of Americans’ sensitive personal information in violation of the Social Security Act.
It also highlighted evidence of the “adverse consequences to citizens from using inaccurate SSA citizenship information in modified SAVE, including the risk that citizens may be required to prove citizenship to remain registered and, in some cases, may have their [voter] registrations cancelled.”
As the court wrote: “The public interest does not favor interim restoration of a system the government has not made a strong showing it may lawfully operate.”Here’s what’s happening:
Last September, we filed a class action lawsuit on behalf of the League of Women Voters and the Electronic Privacy Information Center alongside Democracy Forward and the Fair Elections Center challenging the Trump administration’s unlawful creation of massive government databases consolidating the sensitive and legally protected personal information of millions of Americans.
By consolidating Americans’ sensitive personal information into a single federal system, the administration is creating exactly the kind of centralized personal data repository that the Privacy Act was designed to prevent.
That’s why CREW sued to block this unlawful effort by the Trump administration—and we’ve won multiple times.
On June 22, the D.C. district court ruled that the expanded SAVE program violated multiple laws and vacated the modified system as well as the government’s use of Social Security information for voter searches.
Then, on Saturday, a federal appeals court rejected the Trump administration’s request to pause that ruling. Yesterday, the Trump administration went to the Supreme Court as a last ditch effort after losing at every previous level.
We’re proud of the win at the appeals court and committed to defending our victory at the Supreme Court to protect voters from being unlawfully purged due to the unreliable SAVE database and further protect Americans’ sensitive personal information.
Mark, the Trump administration is doing everything in its power to continue using its illegal, massive database of Americans’ personal information, and the courts are repeatedly and unambiguously saying no. The next step is the Supreme Court.
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